Petar Popović (poet)

Petar Popović (Belgrade, 1904 - 1995) was a Yugoslav poet and Surrealist.

Biography
Petar Petrović was born in 1904 in Belgrade into a middle-class family. He too was evacuated in 1915 in France, where for the next four years he continued his Gymnasium studies. Upon his return to Serbia after the war, he resumed his high school education in Belgrade and in 1923, graduated. Then, he enrolled at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Science's Department of Chemistry from where he graduated in 1928. With the creation of first group of Surrealists in 1930, he was one of the 13 signatories of their Manifesto in the Almanac Nemoguče-L'Impossible where two of his article were also featured.

In 1931, he issued a surrealist plaque with a photomontage of Neću, testera stvarnosti (I Don't Want, a tester of reality). He collaborated in the magazine Surrealism Today and Here in 1932. From 1932 until 1940, he worked as a professor and translator. After retirement, in 1969, Petar Petrović donated a legacy with books and other objects to the Museum of the City of Belgrade.

From 1969 until his death in 1995, he was an expert guide at the Museum of Paja Jovanović in Belgrade.